Tag Archives: devils peak

Photography question

By 6000 | 6000 | May 26, 2011

You know how it is. You spend all evening relaxing at home with only a sick wife, a chicken madras and the Arctic Monkeys for company (more on them soon) and then it (not the wife, this time) suddenly strikes you that you haven’t blogged today. And today is one of those days when I’d actually [...]

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Real Mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2010

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: while Table Mountain is the iconic Cape Town landmark, Devils Peak is by far the most charismatic of the Cape Town mountains. It looks like a proper mountain whichever side you view it from – it’s got a pointy top and the view from up there must be spectacular. [...]

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Every day…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 5, 2009

Every day, I am blown away by the beauty of the mountain. (When it’s visible and not hidden behind shedloads of dark grey cloud, obviously.) This was from my drive home tonight. Full size with option of spankingly large desktop background size here. Pedants (you know who you are): This doesn’t count as a quota [...]

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What a difference a day made…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 18, 2009

Twenty-four little hours. Brought the smoke and the fires. Where there used to be green. Before and after – The Devils Peak Fire Houses in High Cape and Vredehoek (where I used to live) were evacuated at 1 o’clock this morning as high winds threatened drive the fire into residential areas. Spectacular iol pictures. Today, [...]

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